# How to translate a PDF document

Last night I was trying to translate Dröge, E., Maghferat, P., Puschmann, C., Verbina, J., & Weller, K. (in press/2011). Konferenz-Tweets. Ein Ansatz zur Analyse der TwitterKommunikation bei wissenschaftlichen Konferenzen. Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium for Information Science (pp. n.n.). Boizenburg: Verlag Werner Hülsbusch. ([pdf link to paper](http://ynada.com/pubs/isi2010.pdf)).

I thought The [Google Doc Viewer](http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fynada.com%2Fpubs%2Fisi2010.pdf) would have this feature built in but alas no. The clumsy workaround is to drag and select the text (Ctrl+A grabs the Doc Viewer interface) before coping and pasting into Google Translate.

I then discovered that copying the pdf url into Google Translate does the job without the hassle of copy/paste ([link to translated pdf](http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fynada.com%2Fpubs%2Fisi2010.pdf)).

\[The caveat to all this is the original pdf must be accessible ie still contain the raw text rather than being an image\]